Security & Strategic Review January 2009 (ISSN 1741-4202)

MEXICO-US | ICJ rules two ways on death sentences. On 19 January the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down a unanimous ruling that the US violated the injunction order issued last July, with the August execution of Mexican national José Ernesto Medellí­n in Texas. The ICJ had ordered the US government to use all measures at its disposal to suspend the execution of Medellí­n and four other Mexicans until it ruled on Mexico's petition for an interpretation of a 2004 ruling on the review of the death sentences passed on several dozen Mexican nationals.